Planning A Web Site
- How to plan your site
- Mapping the site
- Chunking information
- The importance of good web content
Basic web design principles
- The good the bad and the ugly
- Structuring and Site Navigation
- The limitations of html
Common web page elements
- Headers and footers
- Navigation bars
- Back buttons
Typography for the web
- Limits
- Tips
- Typefaces for the Web
e-Commerce
- What is e-commerce?
- How to set up an online shop
- Options
- Shopping carts – what to look for
- Taking payment online – options
- Creating an online shop in Dreamweaver
Working With Images
- Optimising files
- Gifs and Jpegs
File formats and image compressionFormatting your pages
- Printable areas
- Browser compatibility issues
Getting your customers to come backDomains and Hosting
- What to consider when choosing a hosting company/registrar:
- Will I require database connectivity/cgi?
- How many mailboxes will I need?
- Buying domain names & web space
- Pointing your domain to your site & DNS Settings
- FTP
Web 2.0
- What is Web 2.0 and why should you be interested?
- Web 2.0 Design style considerations
- Web 2.0 Technology – AJAX, CSS
- Community building – Blogs, Forums, RSS News
- Web 2.0 site creation tools; WordPress, Blogger
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